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An interesting find given to me by a friend recently.
This tag is of the early US type with the soldier's address and NOK on the tag. Sometime after 1942, the NOK and address info was scrapped, and a tag with just the soldiers info was adopted.
With 10s of thousands of US soldiers already in Australia, waiting to begin their island hopping campaign agains the Japanese, the surplus quantity of these tags were disgarded, and about 50 tags, mainly all from the same Unit, based out of Portland Oregon, were recoved where a former US Army training/holding camp used to be near Rockhampton, about 650km from where I live.
I googled this info, and found this http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&rid=2107815, then I checked out casualties from his local county, and that Hal survived the war. If he was alive, he would be in his mid 90s.
Here is the tag. There is noticable wear as the chain hole is enlongated from chain wear. Anyways, a true interesting find for anyone who is interested.
OWDU
This tag is of the early US type with the soldier's address and NOK on the tag. Sometime after 1942, the NOK and address info was scrapped, and a tag with just the soldiers info was adopted.
With 10s of thousands of US soldiers already in Australia, waiting to begin their island hopping campaign agains the Japanese, the surplus quantity of these tags were disgarded, and about 50 tags, mainly all from the same Unit, based out of Portland Oregon, were recoved where a former US Army training/holding camp used to be near Rockhampton, about 650km from where I live.
I googled this info, and found this http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&rid=2107815, then I checked out casualties from his local county, and that Hal survived the war. If he was alive, he would be in his mid 90s.
Here is the tag. There is noticable wear as the chain hole is enlongated from chain wear. Anyways, a true interesting find for anyone who is interested.
OWDU
